ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,685, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Resetting system settings memories" was invented by Srinivas Chikkatur Ramesh Kumar (Karnataka, India) and Arunachalaprabhu Gunasekaran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for resetting a system settings memory of processing circuitry of a computing system includes determining that a reset of the system settings memory is needed. At a controller coupled with a relay-based hardware circuit positioned between the system settings memory and a battery that backs the system setting memory, the method includes initiatin...